civil war

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[C,U] a war between groups of people in the same country: the Spanish Civil War * 30 years of bitter civil war

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civil warEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus civil warEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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civil defence civil disobedience civil engineering civilian civility civilization civilize civilized civil law civil liberty civil rights

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